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Greetings everyone. Hope everyone is doing well. It's been a long time since I've visited the site. Just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on my wife's recovery. We returned to Shands Hospital at Gainesville today for my wife's one year anniversary, for her open heart surgery. Remarkably, she...

I've already posted on the rehab forum, however, I thought I'd get more response here. My wife is approximately 4-weeks post op. she had avr and is recovering very well. She just received a prescription for cardiac rehab, however, we are having a difficult time locating a facility near our...

My wife is approximately 4-weeks post op. she had avr and is recovering very well. She just received a prescription for cardiac rehab, however, we are having a difficult time locating a facility near our home. The hospital where she had her surgery is about 3-hrs from our home, so the doctors...

Update: 11/14/12 My wife's recovery continues to progress wonderfully with no complications now that we are at home. I wanted to express my gratitude to all who have been following our journey. It was a godsen for me finding this site during the initial stages and comforting in receiving all the...

My wife had avr (mechanical valve) 6 days ago. She is 46 yoa and doing wonderfully with her recovery. She w just extubated 3-days ago and already has been transferred from cicu, where she spent 5-days and was then transferred to a step-down unit for 1-day and is now on the regular cardiac floor...

Update: 10/2912 Update: 10/2912 10/29/12: Laurie continues to improve. This morning she was much more alert. They are trying to wean her off the sedation medication so that she can be more responsive and breath more on her own. They have removed 2 machines. She is down to only the breathing...

Update: 10/27/12 Update: 10/27/12 Laurie underwent approximately a 9 hr surgery. We were finally able to briefly see her late that afternoon. She was hooked up to all these machines, including a breathing tube, some nitric oxide machine and a machine that worked with a balloon that was...

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to the site, which I have to say, is a wonderful help site. Anyway, let me introduce myself. My name is Ralph and have been married to my beautiful wife, Laurie for 25 years next May. Laurie has congenital heart defect, more specifically, avr with mvr regurgitation...

Has any member had their AVR @ Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL? And if so, who was your surgeon?

Has any member had their AVR @ Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL? And if so, who was your surgeon?

Thanks so much for the kind words. Will do.

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site and to my wife having complications from her heart. She has congenital aortic stenosis which is now labeled, "severe aortic stenosis" in addition to pulmonary hypertension. From what I gather after speaking to the surgeon, her aortic stenosis is 0.7-0.8cm2. She...